{"id":31017,"date":"2013-03-25T16:18:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/03\/25\/295165\/bahrain-hunger-strikers-raise-concerns\/"},"modified":"2013-03-25T16:18:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:18:40","slug":"bahrain-hunger-strikers-raise-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/bahrain-hunger-strikers-raise-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain hunger strikers raise concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Bahraini demonstrators in the village of Jidhafs hold posters of jailed activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja during a protest calling for his release on April 6, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>A Bahraini rights group has expressed grave concern over the life of two prominent rights activists as they continue their week-long hunger strike.<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini Center for Human Rights (BCHR) says Zainab al-Khawaja and her father Abdulhadi al-Khawaja are now on a dry hunger strike to demand visitation rights to their families.<\/p>\n<p>The two are also protesting a new rule that requires political prisoners to wear a uniform designed for criminal convicts. Activists say Zainab is now in danger of organ failure and cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Zainab and Abdulhadi are now serving prison terms for what Manama calls starting anti-regime protests.<\/p>\n<p>Zainab was arrested by the Saudi-backed forces in a demonstration held in capital Manama on February 27.<\/p>\n<p>Her father has been in prison since 2011. The rights activist, the co-founder and former president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, is among eight Bahraini opposition figures sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in the ongoing revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahraini uprising began in mid-February 2011, when the people, inspired by the popular revolutions that toppled the dictators of Tunisia and Egypt, started holding massive demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>The Manama regime launched a brutal crackdown on the peaceful protests and called in Saudi-led Arab forces from neighboring states.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people have been killed in the crackdown, and the security forces have arrested hundreds, including doctors and nurses accused of treating injured revolutionaries.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrainis say they will continue holding demonstrations until their demand for the establishment of a democratically elected government is met.<\/p>\n<p>MAM\/JR\/SS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahraini demonstrators in the village of Jidhafs hold posters of jailed activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja during a protest calling for his release on April 6, 2012.<br \/>\nA Bahraini rights group has expressed grave concern over the life of two prominent rights a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}